Plus-Size Luna For The Lycan King

Chapter 4: Once Rejected, Now Sold

“Even the Lycan King has shown interest in you,” the slaver inspected my eyes with a torch, chuckling and showing his lost tooth. “Who knew an Omega could fetch so much attention?”

It had been three days since Cedar sold me in a fit rage to this hell hole. I hated being inside here each passing day and I wanted to destroy him for doing this to me.

On the other hand, I was so broken. I had read about one’s true mate as a child. They were supposed to be the best thing that had ever happened to you, but I was wrong.

Cedar was a cruel bastard and I cursed the day I found him at that club.

“You’re crying again?” the man pulled back with a frown smeared on his face like dirt.

I quickly wiped my tears away from where I sat on the concrete ground. “I’m so sorry, sir. It wasn’t my intention to do that at all.”

“Listen to me, girl. You can’t ever cry in front of your buyer because if that makes them return you, I would teach you a lesson you’d never forget. Understood?”

I nodded my head and he left my cold, dark room in the auction house immediately. They were still weighing me and processing me before they put me up on the shelf as they called it.

I wondered if Damian ever made it back to the hotel and if he had indeed found Lara’s whereabouts. What would have happened if mother didn’t stop me and made it to the hotel? Certainly, not this.

The marks of Cedar’s claws were still branded on my face. Healing took time when your wolf was weak and dormant. I watched my reflection in a puddle on the floor, silently crying over how ugly I looked now.

“A visitor for the Omega,” a voice announced and I quickly became on high alert.

Once in a while, family or companions could pay a visit to someone if they weren’t already on the “shelf” here. I stood, waiting for mine with my hands fisted at my side.

Was it my mother? Father? Cedar? Or could it be Damian?

Yet when the gate opened, my face paled in crippling shock. I took two staggering steps back. Word hadn’t gotten back to me. This couldn’t be real.

“You’re supposed to be missing!” I cried out, fearing the truth that was brushing the surface.

“I am missing,” she began while checking out my new home, “Because mother and father sent me away themselves. Goddess, was it him that did that to you?”

I held the wall, breathing one after the other when it became hard to. I remembered that night when I had found them troubled in the living room. Mother had put on a show to deceive me.

“They knew what he was like. Didn’t they?” I whispered, fearing to say it louder because it would hurt more.

“The morning before I went missing, our father had a visitor, who came to warn him. He sent me away as soon as he finished with them.”

“You should have told me.”

“Flora, I could have never known that they would do this—“

“Liar,” my voice bled pain, “The mating ceremony would have had to go on in your absence. You knew I would take your place, but you were afraid of him, so you let me fall prey, Lara.”

“I really hope you would believe me.” A band of slavers pushed her out of the way as they marched into my cell.

Lara crashed into the wall at her side, arm bleeding from a scratch. I looked away because seeing her hurting even the tiniest bit like I did felt good. They carried me out of the dark room where I saw my sister one last time.

If my parents knew that Cedar was aware that I was an Omega, they would have never allowed me to substitute Lara. I owed my family nothing, but I still wondered what he had done to them after selling me. The Alpha’s rage was great, but I didn’t fear that he had possibly killed them. It would serve my wicked mother right.

There were other girls here now, squirming as they dropped us in a room filled with shelves. It was like a shop, but for people not items.

“Inspect their wolves. They cannot be any true hidden identity that would cause us misfortune.”

As they began, I took in a few breaths and called on Tilly. Since I got the auction house, she hadn’t been answering me. It was like she was no longer there.

“A human!” A slaver growled suddenly. holding up an innocent girl by her thin neck.

“Slay her, Jethro,” their leader quietly said, hands clasped behind him.

A dagger sliced through her throat, spilling her blood and insides on the floor. They were almost at my spot. I felt anxious. What if they couldn’t sense Tilly as well?

I was about to pee on myself when the door to the shop dinged and opened. A young man in a dark coat walked in. He didn’t appear disturbed by the scene.

“I hear there was an Omega you recently acquired.”

“Yes, but we’ve not yet readied her for the shelf. There are others who have shown interest in the girl you speak of”

“I would like to examine her and offer a price to bring her with me to Blood Moon.”

“Mr. Fane, it would have to be a handsome one for even the Lycan King, your brother, has his eyes on the Omega,” the leader of the slaves smiled greedily.

The man nodded once and immediately they moved me to a much quieter part of the shop. His hands were clasped behind his back as he rounded a kneeling me.

I shivered under his scrutinising gaze. There was something off about him. It was as if he could see deep into my soul. A part of me knew he could sense that my wolf was no longer with me.

“Slaver, do you even have any idea what you’re about to sell to me?” he stopped and chuckled vaguely.

My heart skipped. He was about to reveal the truth. They would slit my throat like the poor girl from before. But who could have stolen Tilly from me? It had only been a week since I met Cedar and my world spiralled madly out of control. I cracked my head until an ache almost split it in two.

“Be reminded that you cannot come here and make false claims about the wolves I sell. You had better make yourself clear—“

“The Omega is pregnant with a royal blooded pup.”